After the jump I’ve got the trailer for The Taking of Pelham 123, the second movie in only a couple months to star John Travolta as some kind of goateed hard ass. Look, man, nothing’s gonna make us forget this nightmare. It was directed by Ridley Scott’s brother Tony and co-stars Denzell Washington. He and Travolta play sort of a flipped-flopped version of John McClaine and the fat guy from Family Matters in Die Hard. James Gandolfini plays the mayor, and I’ll bet $1000 he turns out to be the bad guy. Long story short, it would be lot better if it were about the three sexy Pelham sisters. Or Madame Pelham, who’s 123 (for the novelty value).

The original version of taking of pelham 123 from 1974 starring Walter Matthau as the cop and Robert Shaw as the criminal was fantastic. Its where Quentin Tarantino cribbed the idea for the criminals to use color coded names (the bad guys in Pelham called themselves: Mr. Blue,Mr. Green, Mr. Gray, and Mr. Brown).

02.13.09 at 1:21 pm

Ragnarok

So is this movie about that guy from the Backstreet Boys scrapping with one of the guys from, I don’t know, Boyz II Men?
There should be a scene where Tony Soprano beats the shit out of the used-to-be-hot chick from Medium.

02.13.09 at 6:43 pm

Nick Jacobs

Seeing John Travolta in drag almost gave ME a seizure. Can you imagine if that was your dad?

02.13.09 at 11:45 pm

10 Inch Spielberg

US Weekly reports that John Travolta will keep the stash for his upcoming role starring in the biopic “Johnny Cakes: The John Costelloe story”.